Lobelia Syphilitica

Lobelia syphilitica, Linn.

Natural order, Lobeliaceae.

Common name. Great Blue Lobelia.

Preparation, Tincture of the plant.

Authorities, (Hering s provings, Hahn. Month., 6, p. 520.) 1, proving of Dr. WilHanisou, 10 drops of 2d dil., twice a day, for three days ; 2, Dr. J. Jeans took 5 drops of 2d dil. in water; 3, J. W. B. took without result, next day i-3 a week later, 5th dil.; 4, Neidhard, 5 drops of y(,th) at 4 P.M., first day, 10 drops, morning aud evening, second day; and subsequently 10 drops of jf)th.

—Frequent mistakes in spelling and writing (with confused feeling and slight aching in the head), (after fifteen minutes),''*.

Head p. 619

Confusion, Confused feeling, with slight aching in the head, immediately; with frequent mistakes in spelling and writing (after fifteen minutes)

Dizziness, particularly iu moving about, lasting three hours (after five minutes)

GoieraJ Head. General aching through the head

Headache, continuing till daylight (sixth night)

Headache, after dinner (sixth day)

Foveliead. Dull pain in the forehead, over the eyes, increased by reading and writing; the pain less severe than the day previous (one hour and a half after first dose, second day)

Dull, aching pain in the forehead, over the eyes, principally over the root of the nose, in the centre, soon ; lasting, with slight intermissions, until evening (first day)

Oppression in the forehead over eyes (after five minutes)

Temples, Pain in both mastoid processes, first felt and worst in the right one, in the afternoon (first day)

Acute pain along the frontotemporal suture of the right side (second and third days)

Stitching pain in the left temple (after thirty minutes)

Favietals, Pain on the left side of tbe head, over the coronal suture (half an hour after first dose and after second dose, first day)

Pain in left parietal protuberance (after one hour)

Eyes p. 619

Heaviness over the eyes, like a weight, but no pain (fifteen minutes after first dose, second day)

Burning iu right eye, with a tear (after thirty-one minutes)

Slight aching over eyes, particularly left eye (ten minutes after second dose, second day)

Itching of internal canthus of left eye (after sixteen minutes)

Itching in external canthus (after thirty-three minutes)

Smarting itching of the internal canthus of thelefteye (second and third days)

Oihit. Boring pain in the right orbit (fifth day)

Drawing sensation under the right eye; in the afternoon (first day)

Lids. Feeling of a foreign body under the right upper lid, with smarting and burning (after forty-five minutes),®. Oppression over the eyelids, and slight drowsiness (after first dose, second day),*. Soreness of the tarsi of the right eyelid (after forty minutes),®. Ball. Soreness of the eyeballs from turning them (fifth day)

Lar p. 619

Fnhi in left ear (after thirty-four minutes)

Continued itching in the left ear, about the posterior edge of the meatus (after ten min- UtGS

3f^Ose. Frequent sneezing, with severe and painful jarring in the breast and larynx ; the latter feels as if it were stretched almost to bursting, with copious discharge of thick mucus from both nostrils, at sunset (after thiityseven hours)

[3®.] Painful irritation of both sides of the cartilaginous portion of the septum nasi ; worse immediately behind the columna nasi; sensitive to the cool air (second day)

Itching and tingling feeling in the left nostril, as if about to sneeze (after seven minutes)

Flushed face, with heat, when lying down (fifth day)

4 ace flushed, and headache after dinner, with drowsiness and lassitude, but inability to sleep when lying down ; somewhat better going into tlje open air (sixth day)

Sensation of dropping under the left cheek-bone in the afternoon (first day)

Drawing pain in the right cheek-bone (sixth day)

Perfect dryness of the lips, and a feeling of dryness and sensitiveness of the nostrils, so that the inhalation of air of a moderate temperature (supposed 60°) creates a painful feeling (after two hours, also second day)

Pain in the right maxillary joint, and in the middle of the right lung, in the afternoon (first day),h

Mind p. 620

Frequent shooting pains through the teeth on the right side (she is subject to these pains), (first day)

Bleeding of the gums, with putrid taste (fifth day),h

A renewed secretion of thick mucus, apparently on the superior surface of the palate, renewed by snuffling and hawking; with still further diminution of the soreness of the throat (after thirty-six hours)

Dryness of the left half of the palate (half an hour after first dose, first day),h

Constrictive feeling of the skin of mouth and tongue, especially at left commissure of the jaws ; in ten minutes afterwards, towards the root of the tongue

The astringent feeling in left side of the mouth, though abated after the mucous secretion at noon, still continued (after eleven hours)

Great soreness, rawness, pricking, dryness of the lower surface of the palate (after forty minutes) ; extending forward through the whole mouth (after forty-five minutes) ; abated after the mucous secretion at noon, but still continued (after eleven hours)

Throat p. 620

Objective. Increased secretion of mucus from the throat, (ten minutes after second dose, second day)

Thick mucous secretion in throat, with diminution of the very unpleasant feeling of constriction, rawness, dryness, and soreness of throat (after sixty minutes)

Subjective, Dryness of the throat, with the sensation as if the pharynx was open like a funnel (second and third days)

Pain in region of right tonsil (after sixteen minutes)

Pain in the region of the left tonsil, immediately

Sensation of a lump in the upper portion of the oesophagus (half an hour after first dose, first day)

Stomach p. 620

Eructation and Hiceoaffh. (Acid eructations from 5 to 6 p.m.), (first day)

Waterbrash, at 8 a.m. (fourth day)

Hiccough (half an hour after first dose, first day)

Stomach. I suffered from dyspepsia thirteen years ago, and my sufferings now are of the same kind ; they are temporarily relieved by drinking cold water (fifth day)

Sinking feeling in stomach, followed by borborygmi below the epigastrium (after twenty-one minutes)

Slight pain in region of the pylorus (after fifty-five minutes)

Awoke at 6 a.m. with violent pain in stomach, and pain and borborygmus in bowels, followed by copious watery stools, with tenesmus and soreness in the anus; had four similar attacks during the day, and they became so violent that I took Pod. pelt, twice, which arrested the diarrhoea, and the pain gradually subsided during the evening; but the pain in the stomach with sensation of distension increased, with hunger (fourth day)

The jolting of an easy carriage gives pain in the stomach and both hypochondria (fifth day)

Abdomen p. 620

Objective. Borborygmi just below the epigastrium, most after dinner, for hours (second day)

Borborygmi in lower part of abdomen, towards the right side (after twenty-five, twenty-nine, and thirty-two minutes)

Woke at 3 a.m with flatulency, but inability to pass it from the bowels (fourth Subjective. Pains in the abdomen, most below the umbilicus, follow^ed by diarrhoeal stools, in the afternoon and evening (second day)

Stitching-drawing pain in left anterior lumbar region of abdomen (after twenty-one minutes)

Stool p. 620

Three loose evacuations from the bowels (second and third days')A

Ineffectual effort at stool, but free evacuations of tasteless wind on rising from bed (fourth morning)

Urinary Organs p. 621

Itching and smarting in the forepart of the urethra (after forty-five minutes),I

Increased quantity of urine, with free discharge (second and third days),h

A small quantity of urine, which he is obliged to retain for some time, causes pain in the bladder; when evacuated, of a deep amber color; at noon (second day)

Respiratory Organs p. 621

Much tickling about the top of the larynx, with disposition to hacking cough, in the evening (after thirty-nine hours),l

Morning hoarseness connected with the state of the stomach (sixth day)

Dyspeptic cough originating in the stomach (sixth day),h

Slight mucous expectoration, in the evening (second day)

Chest p. 621

Pain in the middle of the right lung and in the right maxillary joint, in the afternoon (first day),h

Pain just anterior to the cartilaginous margin of the short ribs (after one hour and a half)

Pain between shoulders and neck, both sides (after fifty minutes)

Aching pain iu the cartilage of the sixth left rib (after twenty-two minutes)

Rheumatic pain along the right collar-bone, iu the evening (fifth day),h

Pain about the junction of sixth right rib with its sternal cartilage (in five minutes)

Pain in left side of chest near the axilla, with aching in the left shoulder and arm (after twenty-eight minutes)

31aniince. Pain under the left breast (sixth day)

Severe and painful jarring in the breast and larynx; the latter feels as if stretched almost to bursting; with frequent sneezing ; at sunset (after thirty-seven hours)

Heart and Pulse p. 621

Pain in region cordis in seven hours, about sunset severe

Neck and Back p. 621

JVecA*. Stiffness of the nape (worse on left side) from looking up (fifth day)

Slight aching pain from the back of the head down the nape of the neck (first day)

Hack. Pain in the back

Pain, heavy, aching, in the back under the false ribs, worse at night after lying down iu bed, and increased to a cutting pain by deep inspiration, and aggravated by turning iu bed ; pathogenetic, third and fourth nights, and in the days, but less

Cutting pains in the back under the false ribs, cutting forwards and upwards; did not notice the pain after going to bed

Stitching pain in right back, passing from eighth rib downwards (after fifty minutes)

Dorsal. Pain on the inside edge of the right scapula (after ten hours)

Pain, acute, sticking, iu eighth dorsal vertebra (after fifty minutes)

Lninbar. Pain in the region of the left kidney (after twelve minutes)

Stitch pain iu region of right kidney (after thirty-two minutes)

Superior Extremities p. 621

Aching, very considerable, of the right shoulder and fingers, whilst writing (after fifteen minutes),®. Heavy pain in the radial muscles of the left arm (half an hour after first dose); iu the same part of right arm (after second dose, first day),'. Stiff numb feeling in the palm of the right hand (after twenty-nine minutes)

Sticking pain in the left thumb, fleshy part of the last phalanx (after twenty minutes)

Inferior Extremities p. 621

Hip. Pain in both hips, occasionally (after twenty minutes and after several hours),®. Knee. Sensation of coldness, as if from the weather, with aching, in both knees through the dav (fifth day)

Lett. Pain in the lower yiart of the right tibia and in right ankle (after sixtffive minutes)

Stitching pain in left tibia (after forty-five minutes)

A-tlkle. Rheumatic pain over the right inner ankle (fifth day)

Pain in the upper part of the left heel (after two hours)

Pricking or stinging in the soles of both feet; sensation as if asleep/.

Toes, Pain in the fleshy part of the last phalanx of toe, left (after twenty-three minutes)

Sore pain in the joints of the left big toe (sixth (lay),h _

Generalities p. 622

Lassitude, after dinner (sixth day),. Transient pain ov'^er the left kidney, and soon afterwards in the left hypochondrium (half an hour after first dose, first day)/.

Skin p. 622

(Itching here and there on the skin, worse than usual), (first day)

Sleep p. 622

Drowsiness, but inability to sleep, when l3dug down after dinner (sixth day),h

Slight drowsiness, and oppression over the eyelids (after first dose, second day)

Restless sleep, with frequent wakings through the night (sixth night)

Fever p. 622

Git illness. Cold sensation, as if alcohol had been spilled on the outer portion of the left thigh (eighth day)

Coldness of hands and heat of forehead (after twenty minutes)

Heat. Flashing of heat in the back, shoulders, and face, with burning of ears (after forty-five minutes),l

Heat of forehead and coldness of hands (after twenty minutes)

Conditions p. 622

Aggravation.

(Night), Headache; after lying down in bed, pain in back.

(After dinner), Headache; face flushed, etc.; borborygmi; lassitude.

(Drinking cold ivater). Dyspeptic sufferings.

(Lying doivn), Flushed face, etc.

(Moving about), Dizziness.

(Reading), Pain in forehead.

(Writing), Pain in forehead.

Amelioration p. 622

(Open air), Face flushed, etc.

Footnotes

† This point wus introduced into the Materia Medica hy Dr. Hering, under the name of Lobelia cerulea, but though the latter is certainly a more pleasing- name, yet it rested upon no authority, having never been described under that^ name' besides Lobelia cerulea, B. M., grows at the Cape of Good Hope, was figured in Bot. Mag., 2701, and may yet be proved.—T. F. Allen.